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I think I just had this happen to me. I'm using Kubuntu 6.06. with OpenOffice.org 2.02-2ubuntu12.6.
Doing my thesis on OpenOffice, and, of course, need to export to .DOC so my committee can read it. Right after doing so, OO crashes when I open the original .ODT document to continue editing. Strangely, the .DOC file opens just fine. I've imported no tables from the web or anything. All tables and drawings were made within OpenOffice. I couldn't find any URLs with special characters. It really just seemed like the export to .DOC process did something to OpenOffice, so that a few seconds after I open the original .ODT, CPU load skyrockets and it, and sometimes everything, freezes. (I know I've got problems when the fan speed goes up, and up, and up). I tried the same original .ODT on Kubuntu 6.10, and it seemed to be okay with it.
It's also possible it crashed before I exported to .DOC when I was working on the captions to imported Calc tables, trying to put them above the table rather than below. Two tables in succession were not cooperating with me when I was trying to place them (they are anchored to paragraph, if it matters), and they sort of got mixed up and as I was trying to disentangle them things froze, but I can't remember if that was before or after the export. I have a .PDF archive of it so my committee could see what the thesis was looking like (since .DOC format doesn't export well), in which the tables and captions are correct, so I can't remember the order of things.
I think it froze on me messing with the tables, I got them right (anchoring to page, I think), exported to .PDF, things seemed okay, exported to .DOC, and now it won't let me open the original .ODT file without freezing. I think the first and second sets of freezing might be different issues. The computer had been on all day with me working on the thesis, which I should know better than to do. It was pretty hot when I forced a shut down (laptop).
Hope this helps. I've reinstalled OpenOffice once already, which allowed me to read on of the .ODTs that freezes, but not another, and when I opened that one (the one I exported to .DOC, by the way), it freezes and makes me unable to open the one that did start working again. Other .ODT files (much less complicated in terms of features) seem to read fine. I'm going to try purging OpenOffice and reinstalling it again. I'll add another comment if anything changes.
Thanks!
Scott Menzies